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currently I'm a postdoc resercher in Europe (Italy) and I would like to apply for a postdoc position in USA. Are there some chances for non-US citizens or non-permanent resident to be selected for a postdoctoral position?

I'll leave it to other postdocs to help you, and they'll know more than I do . . . My experience has been that people in Postdocs in the USA are at least 50% from other countries. I think our system here, for postdocs, is very open.

Dave

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”- Alain de Botton

I am from a country in northern europe (within the EU) and the majority of my collegues from my PhD studies ended up doing a postdoc in the US. I think that all of them are now back in Europe again with I believe one exception and he is in Singapore.

Several of the people going to US for postdocs did bring their own funding ie they had some form of grant that they used to finance their own salary and sometimes also a small part of their expenses. Having your own money makes finding a postdoc supervisor really easy.

currently I'm a postdoc resercher in Europe (Italy) and I would like to apply for a postdoc position in USA. Are there some chances for non-US citizens or non-permanent resident to be selected for a postdoctoral position?

As others have said, I've worked with many postdocs who were not US residents or citizens. At my postdoctoral institution I worked with one postdoc from Sicily and another from Florence. Yes, there is opportunity for Italians to get postdocs in America.

In the old days, it used to be called getting your BTA (Been to America) degree and was considered to be extremely beneficial for future positions back home. Not sure if this is the case anymore, but about 50% of US-based post docs are not US citizens.